If you were to take the polar opposite of how I feel about, say, The Silence of the Lambs, and apply it to the animal kingdom, you’d still wouldn’t have enough ill-will towards spiders.
Oh, how do they revile me? Let the count the ways…
Anyways, when it comes to these nasty little hellions, I on par don’t do so well. I have improved much since that fateful night in ’96 when I watched Arachnophobia and then didn’t sleep for three days. It’s something I’ve been actively working on, as much as one can.
Well, just a bit ago, I was in this little room behind the entertainment center. The entrance is so narrow that one has to squeeze through it sideways, as the water heater blocks most of the entrance.
Well, I was in there, in that dark, hot, confined space, screwing a small bit of hardie board to more or less seal off a sizable hole in the wall. I take a step back and rotate to the left. At this point, I had wall directly on my right, a water heater right behind me, and had brushed up against some sort of spiderweb with me left arm. Up until that point with that contact with the web, I had totally sucked it up and manned it out.
Everything changed the moment I saw the beast. Needless to say, I got the hell out of there, and somehow without created a Will-shaped hole in the water heater and/or wall.
I tried and have partial success in soothing my nerves with whiskey, but let’s face it – I’m as jangled as a little girl. I’m still at the point where even the slight changes in air movement by the ceiling fan against my leg hairs are freaking me out. I wonder, can one get oneself hermetically sealed? Assuming there aren’t any in there?
Okay, I just freaked myself out more. I’ve dutifully applied whiskey to the mental injuries to help clean them.
I’ve sent an email in to Whats That Bug for a positive ID, and hope to have a name and information (and therefore power over) for this hellion.
Until then, here’s some photos I managed to snap, after the requisite swig or few of whiskey. For my own sake, I’m just going to link them instead of embed them, as I don’t even like looking at pictures of spiders.
I posted these up at a pretty high res, so enjoy/punish yourself:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/willcore/3503102998/
http://www.flickr.com/phtos/willcore/3503101272/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/willcore/3503099684/
Awwww. I actually think of you every time Zuzu is watching her favorite TV show “Miss Spider’s Sunny Patch” http://www.noggin.com/shows/miss_spider.php
Hey, you can get over it if you dedicate time and money to desensitization therapy with a reputable, skilled therapist.
It’ll be painful, I’m sure, but I bet overcoming that fear will be a huge feather in your cap.
Also, is that blue cable cat5 cable? If so, that’s a pretty big one.
Looks like a Brown Recluse to me! We have a similar spider up here called the Hobo, and my last apartment was infested those little(huge!) bastards!
The ones with the little boxing gloves by their faces are the females
And their bite is quite poisonous, but they normally only bite when trapped…not that that helps you to feel better
Katie again, and I take it back. I relooked at what Brown Recluses look like again, and their legs are way thinner (Hobos have thicker legs much like your new friend). I think it might just be a Wolf Spider (I say “just” but their still creepy as hell!!). Their bite will cause a reaction, but not nearly as bad as a Recluse’s
I’m 99% sure it’s just a wolf spider.
It looks like a wolf spider to me.